Individual Species Plans

Northern Bobwhite Conservation Initiative

In March 2002, the Southeast Quail Study Group formed the Northern Bobwhite Conservation Initiative. The Initiative is the first-ever landscape-scale habitat restoration and population recovery plan for Northern Bobwhite in the United States. The continuing serious decline of bobwhite populations across most of the species range was the impetus for large-scale coordinated, collaborative action at the regional level.

Learn more about the Southeast Quail Study Group

Norhern Bobwhite Conservation Initiative Plan

North American Woodcock Management Plan, Update

The purpose of this Plan is to guide the conservation of woodcock in the United States. It describes ways in which the USFWS, state conservation agencies, other public agencies, and private organizations can work cooperatively in addressing problems, developing management programs, and otherwise assuring the future well-being of woodcock.

Woodcock Management Plan

Guide to Woodcock Habitat Management (2.02 MB Adobe pdf file)

Atlantic Brant

The purpose of this plan is to provide management goals, objectives, and strategies for Atlantic brant conservation. The Action Plan outlines steps necessary for appropriate brant management. The Hunt Plan documents goals and objectives for brant harvest and contains strategies to attain them. The Research Plan identifies information needed to improve the approaches outlined in the Action and Hunt Plans. The Plan also includes the data sets used to
manage the Atlantic brant population and descriptions of past and present surveys used to monitor the population and its habitats.

Atlantic Brant Management Plan

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